Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
9 quotes
"people need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I see them too oftenI get sick. it's hard to feedwithout getting fed."
"you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old."
"there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy"
"for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had"
"I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no radioplaysall sadness, grinninginto flow."
"there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock"
"And it seems people should not build houses anymoreit seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floorsunder electric lightswithout shades;it seems there is a lot to forgetand a lot not to doand in drugstores, markets, bars,the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at nightand look through this house and the house does not want to be built"
"my 6 foot goddessmakes me laughthe laughter of the mutilatedwho still needlove...she has saved mefrom everything that isnot here"
"and beware those whoonly takeinstructions from theirGodfor they havefailed completely to live their ownlives."